Inktober 2017 is a trend gradually taking over Twitter and Instagram feeds this October.<\/p>\n
The trend began in 2009 by illustrator and cartoonist Jake Parker, according to his website. Parker said he wanted to develop better skills and habits in his drawing, so he started Inktober as a personal challenge. According to Parker\u2019s website, each day of October one must create an ink drawing and post it online using the #inktober or #inktober2017. Since 2009, people everywhere have started participating in this creative challenge.<\/p>\n
Daniel Adams, chairman of the Department of Art and Design, has decided to not only encourage his fine art students to participate in Inktober, but also to grade them on their participation. Adams said to be intentionally creative every day manifests discipline in your practice of fine art professionally.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what the Inktober thing is about: having a personal project that\u2019s not tied with school things or, if you\u2019re a professional, it\u2019s not work-related. This is for you so that you continue to develop as an artist,\u201d Adams said. \u201cIn (my) class, it has everything to do with a grade, but everywhere else it is just developing the discipline to keep doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adams does not participate in the prompts given by Inktober but instead has created his own theme that matches the theme of his class at church on Sunday mornings. Each day, his creations are based on scriptures from the New Testament referencing the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n
Junior graphic design major Jake McCoy has followed in his professor\u2019s example and added his own spin to the trend. Having grown up with a passion for music, McCoy said he applies that passion toward each prompt. So far, he said the prompt of \u201crun\u201d for Oct. 11 has been the most difficult. McCoy said that adding limits to his creativity helps him with his inspiration.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of times what I find is it\u2019s really hard to be creative when you have no boundaries,\u201d McCoy said. \u201cI always try to find ways to integrate music into my art, and this just seemed like a really good opportunity to challenge myself to kind of be able to combine the two.\u201d<\/p>\n
Junior Elijah Sheffield has been participating in his own personal version of Inktober since this past summer. Encouraged by an older member of men\u2019s social club Knights Sheffield challenged himself to draw and develop a new character every day for a full year. Sheffield said producing new material every day can be difficult, but he finds inspiration in activities like reading.<\/p>\n
\u201cI try to read a little bit every single day and sometimes either imagery used by a really good author or just characters from the books kind of inspire or spark a little train of thought,\u201d Sheffield said. \u201cIt\u2019s literally just putting my pen on the paper and just hoping something eventually comes out because, for the most part, it\u2019s really difficult to do it every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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